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At the clubs on Long Island, NY that I play in there are 2 well attended $500.00 multi table tourneys, when i say well attended I mean for a private club they get between 40 and 60 players making for a healthy prize pool. More than half of the players are gamblers or wealthy guys just looking to blow off steam, there are usually 30 players in the $200 last longer. When these guys bust out the $5/10 NLHE/PLO game is a wondeful place to be. The game is good till dawn because someone is always stuck 7 or 8 dimes, some kid wins $6000 off of a short buy in and there is $15-20k on the table for quite a few hours. The same holds true at the Borgata Friday afternoon, the cash game gets really good as people bust out of their guaranteed tourney so I imagine that the the bigger events produce even better games. Good point about avoiding the sharks, there are plenty of cash pros who make their living playing exclsively in side games on the tournament circuit.